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Posted on December 28, 2009 - by Hubba

OOh Kay…

To anyone who may still be here, I apologize for the long absence from my House.

A lot has happened since I was last here.  I moved to White Owl, SD and got engaged to the lovely Ms. Bonnie Timmons.  It was about damn time I reckon.

I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to continue doing this, but I think I do, so I may as well start today, it being the first day of the rest of my life and all that jazz.

This morning on the Rapid City Journal website there was an article about the Horseshoe Bar in Rapid City.  The Horseshoe Bar has long been the blue collar dive of choice in Rapid City, and for years it was situated on the very edge of town, in a field full of Appaloosa horses as the Journal pointed out.  But the city has slowly and surely crept toward and around it, and it appears that the Horseshoe Bar will fall victim to the next round of development.

I have only been in the Horseshoe Bar once, and the regulars gave me a most touching Fallen Hero’s welcome, which I did not at all deserve.

It went like this here-

In August of ‘05, I was conscripted as an usher at the wedding of two dear friends in Rapid City.  The afternoon before the wedding at the rehearsal, the minister went to great lengths to impress upon us the solemnity and seriousness of the occasion.  The minister unfairly characterized some of us as “godless heathens” or something, and decided that we needed a firm hand on the tiller of the ceremony, along with several extra sermons about the proper time and place for celebration.

Well, it was all too much for one of my fellow ushers, who likely wasn’t entirely comfortable with churches and such to begin with.  The Victorian manner of the minister had the opposite affect of that intended, and at the earliest opportunity, our fractious usher got just as drunk as a person could possibly get.  And then woke the day of the wedding and proceeded to get drunker at the Horseshoe Bar. (more…)

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